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Daniel Boffey in Tbilisi

‘We are very strong’: Georgia’s gen Z drives protests against return to past

Protesters wave flags as they pass the parliament building in Tbilisi on Tuesday.
Protesters pass the parliament building in Tbilisi on Tuesday. Photograph: Nicolo Vincenzo Malvestuto/Getty Images

Mariska Iurevicz’s mother has been crying a lot recently. “She is always asking when I’ll be home”, the 22-year-old says. “I think we are feeling the same. We are nervous and some of us feeling unsafe. But we are very strong. We will do everything to change the situation.”

Iurevicz, a philosophy student at the TSU State University in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, belongs to one of a myriad of protest groups sprouting out of universities and schools that have been driving the mass protests against the “foreign agents” law being introduced in the east European country.

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